House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
LIFT Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 21, 2020
- Committee actionMar 4, 2020
- Passed HouseSep 22, 2020 · 414–0
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 23, 2020 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5664.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5664, Leveraging Information on Foreign Traffickers Act” on March 27, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 4, 2020”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 27, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56305
- CBO publication date
- March 27, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5664, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5664
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCAUL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 12, January 21, 2020, Page H334):Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United StatesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 21, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 61 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5664, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5664
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
af44a18d66681ec0198c6e6cfaf99fa567ab71a5aa5432914c64f77ba7048959
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of May 28, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5664, last updated May 28, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
11 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 11 cosponsors (45%) are from the other party.
Eliot Engel (D-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Pete Olson (R-TX), Scott Perry (R-PA), F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Susan Wild (D-PA), Ron Wright (R-TX), Ted Yoho (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Michael McCaul.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.